1919 Oct 04. b. Nogent-sur-Marne French Surrealist Poet 1937 Joined Les Reverberes a neo- dadist group which included Noel Arnaud. Friends with fellow poet Paul Eluard and with Jean-Francois Chabrun. 1941 Joined La Main A Plume. His house was used as a letter-box. 1943 Signed the pamphlet Nom de Dieu, which was an attack on Georges Bataille for collaboration. aug: - Poeme ->. Sent to Germany as part of Service du travail obligatoire ->. 1944 d. Mar. 13th. Berlin in a German hospital of pneumonia. See wiki (Fr) -> and Brief Bio (Fr) ->. See also (Fr) ->. See Timeline